Clinical Study

Emotion Processing in Women with Schizophrenia Is Menstrual Cycle Phase and Affective Valence Dependent: An fMRI Study

Table 1

Demographic, clinical, and hormonal characteristics of control and schizophrenia women.

Control womenSchizophrenia women
( š‘ = 2 5 ) ( š‘ = 2 2 )P
MSDMSD

Demographic
ā€ƒAge (years)29.289.2732.866.560.138
ā€ƒParental SES2.081.102.551.050.145
Clinical
ā€ƒPANSS positiveā€”ā€”19.327.82ā€”
ā€ƒPANSS negativeā€”ā€”20.148.69ā€”
ā€ƒPANSS generalā€”ā€”42.2712.71ā€”
ā€ƒMedication (mg/day)ā€”ā€”496.61267.94ā€”
Hormonal
ā€ƒEstrogen (pmol/L)256.42265.38214.90150.800.525
ā€ƒProgesterone (nmol/L)12.9319.378.6610.980.371

M: mean; SD: standard deviation; SES: socioeconomic status; Medication: equivalence in chlorpromazine.